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Oh lord, aren't these the two clowns that wrote the Bayformer movies? Oddly enough they did good on the new animated series for the most part but apparently hey can't leave anytime alone. They're not going to go with the classic design because they won't get kids into the theater and that's where the money is. They'll be all hip and trendy and look like something off the CW channel or the pretty vampire shows.

SethS's thread was merged earlier with the wrong thread and has now been added to the proper thread. (This is also what happens when a studio can't come up with a new name for their franchise)

Glad this got scrapped now. This is an example for being too ambitious with building cinematic universes before building good stories and characters. Standalone horror movies featuring these classic characters can still work and I hope Universal considers them with better creative teams.

Glad this got scrapped now. This is an example for being too ambitious with building cinematic universes before building good stories and characters. Standalone horror movies featuring these classic characters can still work and I hope Universal considers them with better creative teams.

I have no problem with them wanting to make a cinematic universe, but when they announce the cinematic universe before even having the first movie, especially when that movie sucks, you've got problems. I'm sure Marvel wanted a cinematic universe before they put Iron Man out. They just didn't make it front and center until they had the work to prove it.

Somewhere they got it in their heads that these movies had to be super high budget FX driven action pieces. If they stayed true to their roots and made them in the $2-5 million range and do exactly as @Vivek says, they could have had something great.

Back in the early 2000s ILM did a test reel for Universal of a full CG Frankenstein's monster based on Karloff. It was black and white, wasn't cartoony, and looked pretty awesome. I'd totally go for something like that too-- like recreating the look of the old Universal monsters with modern stories. That would be awesome.